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The Witness

3 essays, newest first.

Why Old Pain Keeps Coming Back: The Pain-Body

Someone says one small thing and you go up like dry paper. We follow Tolle's pain-body through one whole round while Griff snaps at a friend over a loose chair joint. Michael Singer, David Hawkins, Bessel van der Kolk, Joe Dispenza and Brené Brown add their views along the way, and the post ends on what to do the next time the heat rises.

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The One Step Every Manifestation Technique Secretly Depends On

The techniques keep almost working, and there's a reason. Each one borrows its power from a step nobody names, and teachers from unrelated fields keep pointing at the same one.

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Why You Never Feel Good Enough

A neuroscientist, a plastic surgeon, a presence teacher, a Zen interpreter, a meditator and a mystic arrive at the same answer: the "not enough" feeling is a mechanism, and you can work with a mechanism.

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